1. @TeamSkunkworks
Cloud Computing: Building an
Infrastructure with Amazon AWS
and EC2
Chris Dollmont
@MrCerulean

2. Agenda
• Cloud Compu6ng Overview
• Why?
• How?
• Discipline
• Tools
• Concept
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3. Overview
• What is the “Cloud”?
• Where is it?
• Who provides it?
– Amazon
– Rackspace
– GoGrid
– In house cloud
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4. Overview
• Amazon Services alphabet soup
– EC2 (Elas6c Compute Cloud)
– S3 (Simple Storage Service)
– EBS (Elas6c Block Storage)
– ELB (Elas6c Load Balancing)
– SimpleDB
– RDS (Rela6onal Database Service)
– Route 53 (Elas6c DNS)
– CloudWatch
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5. Why?
• Reduce hardware costs
• Management
• Ease of Deployment
• Management
• Scalability
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6. Why not?
• Reducing costs
– bandwidth
– cycles
– storage
– instances
• Simplifying management
– upfront investment
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7. How?
• Create an Amazon Web Services account
– provide your credit card details
• Launch an instance
– Hundreds of publicly available instances
– Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD
• Configure storage
– S3 or EBS
• Configure access
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8. Discipline
• Best prac6ces are cri6cal
– Standard images
– Standard tools
– Define conven6ons
• Support or not?
– Paid support
– Community support
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9. Discipline
• Moving to the cloud
– Get your meatspace in order
– Create your own AMI (image)
– Use sane defaults
• Test
– And test
– And test some more
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10. Discipline
• Loca6on, loca6on, loca6on
– Be aware of latency
– Amazon offers many loca6ons (regions)
• US East
• US West
• EU (Ireland)
• Asia/Pacific (Singapore)
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11. Discipline
• Decide on image availability
– Reserved instances
– Spot instances
– On demand instances
• Tie storage to an instance
– Only when necessary
• Create with transience in mind
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12. Tools
• Web based
– Amazon’s AWS console
• Free
• Full featured
– Rightscale
• Not free
• Excellent for full automa6on
– SCALR
• Not free
• Excellent for full automa6on
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13. Tools
• Elas6fox
– Graphical
– Firefox based
– 80%
• Tim Kay’s aws tools
– Command line
– hep://www.6mkay.com/aws/
– scriptable (key!)
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14. Tools
• boto
– Python based
– hep://code.google.com/p/boto/
– command line
– scriptable
• mr.awsome
– Python based
– Uses boto
– hep://pypi.python.org/pypi/mr.awsome
– command line
– scriptable
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15. Tools
• puppet
– configura6on management
• ZenOSS
– system monitoring
• flume
– log aggrega6on
• fabric
– code deployment
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16. Concept
• Base AMI
– Built on Debian Lenny
– Stripped to the minimum
– puppet client installed
• Start new AMI
– Assign a class
– Authen6cate to puppet
– Go get coffee
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17. Concept
• puppet
– installs packages based on class
– sets up configura6on
– adds users and groups
– sets up ssh auth
– starts essen6al services
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18. Concept
• ZenOSS
– Can autodiscover new hosts
– Hosts can be grouped by func6on
– Monitoring and stats gathering
• flume
– Centralizes logs
– Allows for analysis
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19. Ques%ons?
@teamskunkworksvn,
@MrCerulean #barcampsaigon
#skunkworksvn

20. PSA
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